The day started at around 9:00 when we drove the motorbikes to a waterfall and had breakfast at a truly Thai place (i.e. a house/restaurant in the middle of nowhere). Then we had a Thai massage (these are actually semi painful but insteresting - more like an extended stretching session I suppose). After that we got on the minivan back to Chiang Mai. This drive is awful. A 140km road which is mostly windy and takes over 3 hours to drive.
From Chiang Mai its airport we took something called a "tuk tuk", which is a 3 wheeled motorbike. These folks tend to be extremely annoyiing as they swarm all over the place and keep offering their services. However, we figured we had to experience it once so we took one to the airport. The ride was quite fun actually.
We then hopped on a plane and flew to Bangkok. The taxi ride to Kaho San road was interesting. Specifically, the driver wanted 200 Baht (the first wanted 500 so I didn't even start negotiating with him), so we hopped on. 200 Baht seemed a bit on the low end, and I was a bit worried he might somehow change his mind. Indeed, when we arrived he asked for 200 x 2 - i.e. 200a person. Of course, I pretended not to understand and quoted his original 200 offer. The driver pretty quickly said "ok ok" and took the 200. Now here's the thing about the Thai people. They know very little English, and often they purposely pretened not to understand things so that the tourists loose their patience and they (the Thai) get things their way. I've learned this and decided to use the same strategy against them. It worked wonderfully well with this taxi driver.
Then at dinner we met 3 Israeli girls that had just arrived (Dikla, Naomi, Sharona) so we hung out with them for a while.
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